skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems there is some hope:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145988/tracking-ama...

> A (...) satellite-based system, DETER, went into operation in 2004 (...)

> “DETER completely changed the way rangers went about enforcement work,” said Rajão. Rather than doing random patrols and checking for permits, rangers would send squads of enforcement officers — with satellite images in hand — to investigate areas of recent, suspicious activity. That made it much easier to remove or apprehend equipment. The word spread among deforesters. The existence of DETER meant that environmental authorities would likely notice if large tracts of land were cleared, and fines and agents would follow soon enough.
Is this the spread to NAV you mention?

https://ycharts.com/companies/GBTC/discount_or_premium_to_na...

It seems the spread is down to 4% now.

And it seems people were willing to pay up to 40% on top of Bitcoins value for GBTC. That is crazy ...
Seasoned IKEA customer here. They have two types of products, one type is durable and the other is not and it's pretty easy to tell the difference from the price. Desks and bookcases are good examples of the former.
> Not every concept needs its explicit name

There is a special subgenre of functional programming, where the style is to explicitly not have names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming (also known as point-free)
Well, in terms of carbon in the atmosphere, making furniture from wood actually makes a lot of sense, assuming you use sustainable forestry (replant the same amount or more).

That carbon in your furniture isn't going into the air anytime soon, hopefully never.
This is a neat little command that is kind of nice because it doesn't require a daemon like at or ts (task spooler) and does dependencies unlike a lot of informal queue techniques and job control built into the shell:

$ some_command &
$ wait; another_command &
$ wait; yet_another_command &
$ ...

Some other lightweight command queue strategies:

* Use a background screen or byobu session. Advantage is that you can attach to it and monitor running tasks.

* bq is a bash script that lets you run a worker process and submit commands to be run in sequence. Nice because it's just a shell script.
A bit of a tangent but, this is all the result of having people use their real names on the internet. I remember when there was a big push for people to create profiles tied to their real identities with the argument being that everyone would behave themselves if their real lives were connected to the things they did online. That argument is dead as discourse is now. Instead of well mannered discussion between opposing views we got media fuelled echo chambers that now extends right to the top offices of government along with political persecution by online mobs that high five each other as they destroy lives and careers. I don’t know what a good solution is.
Why not a virtual/shadow FS? The application would be given a virtual home dir, and would try to access the "~/Downloads" folder, for instance, and then this would take the form of a macOS "Firefox wants to access your downloads folder". Then, OS can easily set up a mount on the container for that folder, with restricted perms.

Same with drag and drop. Data could be put into a folder in /tmp, a mount could be set up whilst it uploads your photo or whatever to Facebook, and then the mount and the temporary dir could be deleted.

Having a "shadow fs" displayed to the container so it can function as if it is not in a container, but then when it wants to access the actual fs, it is done via either prebaked whitelist or user interaction/confirmation, would be great because apps would not have to be modified and security would be incredible.

You could even have it write to shadow FS and that could be synced later.
Yes, the obvious step would be to stop burning fossil carbon, it seems like a much more pressing issue than sequestering the one that is already in the atmosphere.
I found this blog post describing some of the mechanics, but I am still interested in reading how this may be implemented branchlessly.

http://ticki.github.io/blog/how-lz4-works/
A while ago I did some simplistic SquashFS pack/unpack benchmarks[1][2]. I was primarily interested in looking at the behavior of my thread-pool based packer, but as a side effect I got a comparison of compressor speed & ratios over the various available compressors for my Debian test image.

I must say that LZ4 definitely stands out for both compression and uncompression speed, while still being able to cut the data size in half, making it probably quite suitable for life filesystems and network protocols. Particularly interesting was also comparing Zstd and LZ4[3], the former being substantially slower, but at the same time achieving a compression ratio somewhere between zlib and xz, while beating both in time (in my benchmark at least).

[1] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/...

[2] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/...

[3] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/...
Disposable? I've never had to throw away any IKEA furniture. These things can easily last 15 years.
"IKEA is continuing to try and remain true to their principals—protecting the environment and striving to become a carbon neutral company, while still remaining one of the world’s most pleasurable shopping experiences."

Written by someone who has clearly never been to an IKEA.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25924122
It doesn't matter how you arrange data, the moment you need to commit to 2 shards transactionally you are either having consistency trouble or performance trouble.

Both your schemas require writes to at least 2 shards transactionally.
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It’s true, we could let consumers open accounts at the Federal Reserve and turn it into a retail bank. But that doesn’t benefit the average American, since checking is already free.

And for retail loans, interest wouldn’t be cheaper if the Fed gave bank loans, because interest on bank loans is based on rates of default and a bank’s lending history. It’s not just some rent seeking fee on top of the federal funds rate. Turning the Fed into the only retail bank would reduce options for lending and the availability of credit.
> journalistic poison ... intentionally composed to compress the crowds

The article addresses and explores this viewpoint and attempts to add nuance.

> If you search for "compression effect corona" in Japanese on the internet, you'll discover a flood of criticism of newspaper and television images related to the pandemic, including allegations of "creating crowding," "lies," and "faked shots." [...]

> The photos were lambasted as "exaggerating" the crowding, "manipulative," and "stoking public anxiety." However, there is no proof that the photographer was deliberately seeking to create a distorted impression of the scene.

> Shooting crowds with a telephoto lens is standard procedure among photojournalists. I had never questioned the practice, because I thought it was intended to express crowdedness. And as far as I am aware, there had never been criticism of the technique before the pandemic. [...]

> I don't think us news photographers can keep using techniques we'd always taken for granted without talking about why we use them. We are in a time when we must try to shoot our subjects from multiple angles, and explain the effects lens compression and exaggerated perspective can have.
I think overall experience on desktop will continue to deteriorate. In 2008 on Ubuntu 8.04 it was the last time I didn't have any video tearing. I used every lts ever since. When I recently upgraded to 20.04 it replaced existing vertical tearing with brand new diagonal tearing which is even worse. The whole system is more complex every year and install requires more tweaking in every new generation.

OS' only job should be to let use ran apps and every year they find a way to make it more annoying.
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I agree, however I think it would be simpler to require manufacturers to offer 10 year warranties (or perhaps longer) in other to sell their products. The market will be forced to respond with better engineering and also ensure that spare parts are readily available, if only to serve their own interests of making warranty repairs easier.
Classy? There’s a joke that if you don’t know what to get someone for Christmas you’ll buy them beige bath towels. Beige, is well, beige. It’s the least interesting of all colours.
Every single IKEA piece of furniture in my house (desks, tables, sofas, shelves...) is entirely "lossless assembly", although when moving I didn't have to put them apart down to individual parts because they're also designed for whole components to be (dis)assembled and reassembled quickly. I think I have like one piece of furniture that is not entirely lossless and that's the back panel on a closet that needs to be nailed (which provides diagonal constraint), which I've done three times over yet still has room for more.

Okay it's not grandma's stuff that's made of thick solid wood and lasts centuries, but it has really held up well to reasonable abuse.
The Moonlander (and most of the ones being discussed) is fully programmable, so you can move the keys around as you wish.

I have ← ↑ ↓ → in a line on the four lower keys on the right of my ErgoDash. Not having the ⊥ arrangement took a little time to get used to.

I considered some fancy QMK (keyboard firmware) hacking to keep the inverted T, and have the key above ↓ change between Z and ↑ depending on the keypress before, but decided it wouldn't be practical. However, the Z is for Dvorak. A Qwerty layout, where it would be /, might cause less trouble.
That's most certainly not true for Germany, at least if we are talking about German definitions of conservatism. A lot of GOP members are more close to what in the German political system would be seen as the extreme right, arguably bordering on the autocratic right.

There is representation of the conservative voice both in media and the political system. There is repression, both informal and in the legal code, of Neonazi speech.
One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day
IKEA uses wood? really? I thought they used shitty agglomerates and other mixes in their furniture, maybe all the wood is for something else?
Amazing. So by buying real Bitcoin, you instantly have big advantage over investors in GBTC.

Is this the spread we are talking about?

https://ycharts.com/companies/GBTC/discount_or_premium_to_na...

Looks like it is down to 4% at the moment?
Then be prepared to pay 10x the IKEA price.
This is missing a key point: when you keep multiple copies, don't forget to use different file systems on each of those, to avoid a case where one file system corrupts the data similarly across copies.
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They have a web client. On Linux, I've used it within an Electron wrapper.

Their API (MusicKit) is decent, but the rate limiting is fairly onerous.
Surface Detail's plot revolves around the take-down of the richest capitalist on a planet by the Culture.
Is that small-c conservative? Or do you mean rightwing? (curious, I assume the former...)

In either case pretty much all humans are profoundly small-c conservative, "big change projects" on society-scale do often end in war/death/etc. At least, it's probably 50/50 whether its a "National Health Service" or a "World War".

However the reason is deeper than that: evolution does not care if you're thriving, it cares that you are breeding. So you're optimized for "minimum safety" not "maximum flourishing".

So if things are stable then you will prefer to stay in them for as long as possible. It is why people need to "hit rock bottom" before they can be helped, often, ie., their local-minimum needs to become unstable so they will prefer the uncertainty of change.
If you purchased this laptop in Norway you would get a 5 year warranty by law. Maybe the US should do something similar.

I do remember watching a news clip a few years ago where TV manufacturers used a cheap capacitor that would burn out in around 5-6 years. There was a repair shop that would change out the cap for you with a long duty one that would easily last 10 years. The repairman was a bit annoyed at the obvious planned obsolescence.
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Do you (or anyone else reading) have any idea what that white stuff is. And I mean specific. It's probably some kind of setting rubber like material. I ask because I want to liquid metal a CPU and want to create just such a seal.
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Chinese researcher is full of shit and fabricates results, news at 11.

For the haters, this is not racism but nationalism, China super incentivizes bullshit research at a high level these days, and it's gotten bad enough that we're starting to distrust any "work" that comes out of it.

I don't know what the solution is, other than to subject Chinese submissions to more stringent and specifically non-Chinese review.

That's absolutely nationalist, and arguably racist, but it's also smart.
I guess it depends on the 'who' in those places.

It's not hard to imagine a government rather fancying getting a tax receipt from extraction companies, particularly if it is seen as green. Who would presumably lobby rather hard against it. This suggests the absence of pricing at source is to some extent a result of successful lobbying.
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Perspective distortion misuse was neither of these though. It was simply dishonest journalism which distorted the messaging everywhere: are people following lockdowns and distancing or not? How does this relate to case numbers? Who could know because the pictures being put out there meant nothing.
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In 2016 Musk did say "the first ship that goes to Mars, my current favourite is Heart of Gold, from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... I like the infinite improbability drive"[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp13ztMhwGU
> Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya jumped into the controversial name, saying in a Tuesday tweet that he bought GameStop call options betting the stock will go higher. His tweet seemed to intensify the rally in the previous session. The stock ended the day 92% higher at $147.98.

This is growing into a bigger problem. The thought of Twitter influencers (example with E. Musk / Etsy, yesterday [1]) heavily moving the value of stocks with a simple tweet is not really reassuring. The SEC should start investigating properly into it, from personal benefits to bigger company wide fraud, the regulators need to act before this is the new norm.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/26/investing/elon-musk-etsy-...
Melvin capital is in over its head. They have no idea how many people are willing to loose $100 just to stick it to them. HODL
I decided not to pursue an academic career after completing a Ph.D in Experimental Psychology. My main issue with it was:

1. You shouldn't know a priori whether you will be able to reject your null hypothesis (otherwise what is the point of doing the experiment). So what you need is luck, luck that your hunch turned out to be true.

2. If careers live and die by published results, then those who are lucky with finding significant effects early on in their career will win out.

3. Running a well-controlled experiment at scale is difficult in a way that I haven't found matched in the tech fields I have been in since leaving academia. I mean mega-hassle difficult.

4. You therefore have an incredible amount riding on the outcome of that experiment, because of its enormous opportunity cost.

5. The likelihood of being caught faking data is low (especially if you are halfway-competent which this researcher clearly is not).

6. The penalties of being caught faking data (as set out in this article) are relatively low.

7. The payoff of getting away with faking data can include a lot, up to and including a high profile academic career and tenure.

8. So from a game theoretic perspective, it's almost inevitable that quite a few people at the top have faked their way there.

This is not to say that good work is not being done - there is some amazing work out there. I just think that like athletes taking steroids before they reach the big leagues, many academics succumbed to temptation to get an edge in order to get to the top.

See the Dutch Social Psychology scandal for more on this.
This is a much more negative take than I have on Adafruit. Adafruit is, to me, a great provider of breakout boards and gives generously to the community while trying to stay in business. They might be slightly more profitable if they closed off everything they could. I’ve used their libraries on a lot of projects without using their hardware.

Their stuff works, is open, and when I used one of their LSM6DS dev boards on a 32-bit micro, it had an underflow bug; because that board and library was open-source, I could fix it the same afternoon I got the package. The fix was simple and obvious, they accepted my pull request, and now no one else has to waste that hour. That’s the power of open source to me.

I hold Adafruit and Limor in a positive light and think their “bloatware” is very effective in making electronics accessible to many more people than before, much the same as the $30 Arduino did for the $2 AVR. The ecosystem and accessibility matter.

I agree that they’re seeking success of Adafruit, and agree that’s not a bad thing, but I don’t see how they’re going closed. What is “closed” about their ecosystem? The article we’re discussing is about MIT-licensed software on their GitHub.
This might sound weird, but Steam allows you to stream your desktop for games and provides full control as well as stream of audio and video. Works on any device.
Wonder if it could help. Being targeted at games, it has great performance.
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Similarly, it is possible that they would use the time to add new features with new bugs. I'd personally suspect that to be the more common outcome.
Relational model, XML/JSON etc. simply do not have a generic merge operation defined the same way as RDF does. This can be proved with pen and paper.

And you still haven't addressed my second point about widespread industry use. It seems that SemWeb haters/sceptics always try to avoid this, why could that be?..
The most cost effective way is probably dropping a few hundred million anti personnel mines in the forest. They're very cheap to produce, very expensive to remove, and reliably keep people out of the area.
funny you said "the government lends indiscriminately or with an agenda with no market interest"

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/centre-launch...

this one is only "micro credit" but its pretty "indiscriminate" in a sense that the poorest of roadside street vendors/hawkers who "do not" have a credit score even are getting a loan.

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/banking-finance/ps...

this one, everyone, like every business owner using a credit line or similar products from banks were given additional 20%, no checks, no nothing. take it.

while the second one is in somewhat organized sector because those are already bank customers, the first article, these people will have a lot of default because people see this as free money, not a "loan" and guess who will bear the expense. taxpayers.
I ported the block format to Rust matching the C implementation in performance and ratio.

https://github.com/pseitz/lz4_flex
The photos in that article are equally as bad as the effect being described, as not taken at the same time, with the same numbers of people in shot. So it is hard to compare and gives a biased view.

Definitely valid points being made, but not having directly comparable photographs weakens the argument, to me. I'd rather see shots of the same crowds and locations for direct comparison, which would make the explanations more clear.
> the academic system, which is bad in many countries. I suppose GP intended it to compound - as in the guy was sketchy per se, and from a sketchy place.

is it good here? is here considered less sketchy?
> Because nobody reads it there

That's a problem that would fix itself the moment most useful research was mainly available on such platforms.

> more importantly, funders don't recognise the work you've done there

Once again, that sounds like mostly a problem that would disappear if a large migration to open platforms was to happen.

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So it seems the main poroblem seems to be that there's no incentive to be among the first to make the move? IIRC it's often the journals that don't want content to be published elsewhere, so I guess just doing both is also not that simple.
Substack seem to me to be genuinely trying to build a better online platform, so I expect they will build a better one (for reasoned debate rather than dopamine-drive outrage) than twitter.
Yes we agree with each other.
If you do political rallies, it is a matter of time until there is a picture of one of your people talking to what looks like an empty space in the newspaper.
While the "host" (people who pay, often with minimal decision power over their resources) turns a blind eye, "parasites" (cheaters who profit disproportionately) proliferate. Is that really so surprising?

When somebody else foots the bill, it's feast time!

To be clear, I'm with you. Also a PhD-turned-industry, for much the same reasons. But I realize what you describe is a completely rational strategy. The options always come down to:

1) Try not to be a host – if you have the wherewithal

2) Try to be a parasite – if you have the stomach

3) Suck it up & stay salty – otherwise. You can call it a balance, equilibrium, natural order of things – whatever helps you sleep at night.

Take your pick and then choose appropriate means. Romantic resolutions and wishful thinking – kinda like Atlas Shrugged solution for option 1) – rarely work.
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Before going through all that hassle, I'd rather torrent it.
Note that AMD has been beating Apple on single core performance since day 1. See the comparison between 4700u, M1 and micromagic Risc-v:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/new-risc-v-cpu-claim...

I assume the efficient cores on M1 gives it an edge on power usage.
Aligning the incentives is the solution. There's no downside to bullshitting because our institutions are built on it.
Yeah I would argue with the disposability. I use it for many years. I have some Ikea stuff that's 40 years old. Granted, their current product line is not quite as durable but this is partially because they use less materials (hollow surfaces etc).
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And not being hardwood is also good for the environment as hardwood takes much longer to regrow.
Ikea sells lots of stuff made out of softer solid woods that is probably lighter than the engineered material versions.
There's no winning in these situations. Sooner or later they will implode into smaller groups and won't have much power. Look at the different Christian sects that came to be over minor theological differences.
Not the GP, but I read the whole trilogy and also didn't like it.

One aspect was just too much space commissars for me (a former Soviet citizen). The science behind it is also bad; the view on social dynamics is simplistic. Some of the characters are, uh, not even cardboard.

I had it recommended as hard SF so maybe it set my expectations wrong.
Yes.

Python is glue.

If you build a stick bridge with just glue you sound like the type of person who ate most of it.